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Tag: biomedicine
Countdown to Big Data in Biomedicine: Technical showcase to spotlight companies’ innovations
Later this week, thought-leaders from academia, information technology corporations, venture capital firms, the U.S. government and foundations will convene for the Big Data in Biomedicine …
Stanford bioengineer discusses mining social media and smartphone data for biomedical research
During the 2014 Big Data in Biomedicine conference, Stanford bioengineer and geneticist Russ Altman, MD, PhD, spoke about the possibility of collecting data directly from …
Using genetics to answer fundamental questions in biology, medicine and anthropology
At last year's Big Data in Biomedicine conference, Stanford geneticist Carlos Bustamante, PhD, spoke about the potential of using genetic information to answer fundamental questions …
Registration for Big Data in Biomedicine conference now open
Last spring, in a blog post on a study from Stanford systems-medicine chief Atul Butte, MD, PhD, National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins, MD, PhD, noted that …